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The Opelousas courier., 1887-10-15
Fas hiOn Notes.

Fashion Notes.
Steel gray will be the most elegant
color for the street.
Hat trimmings continue to be yer y
high.
Honiton lace is in highest fashion for
bridal toilets.
Dark blue and brown cloth uppers are
used on stylish boots.
Bell-like flowers make handsome hair
and shoulder decorations.
Cloth costumes look the best when
trimmed in the simplest manner.
Moire will be used for trimming serge
dresses, but scarcely in any other way,
Several materials are combined now to
make charming effects in autumn cos
tunes.
Side panels are going cut. Front
bands or draped panels will take their
place.
Next winter will be emphatically
silk" as distinguished from a ''woolen"
season.
Surah looks decidedly rich when used
with black, brown, dark green or ser
pent blue.
The most fashionable women IN Paris
are wearing their gowns without the
t%ournurc.
Silk tapestries as thick and rich as up
holsterers' goods may be used to trim
wool dresses.
lyon black silk costumes are noted
aprons O figured lace, which add no llttl'
to their beauty.
Lace designs of cut, uncut and frls'
velvet over satin or silk remain attractive
for elegant gowns.
Braids are shown in some new canva'
weavings, which are particularly tast'
full and ~seasonable.
Coat basques with long square sid
d pieces, low on the hips, will be used TO
demi-saison toilets.
Mandarin sleeves are appreciated II
wraas, and with their fancy Innings give
quite a smart air to them.
The pulled sleeves have had thel
brief day. Straight sleeves will rul
during the fall and winter.
For cashmeres full draperies and bod
: ices, with soft, full fronts and puttet
+ sleeves, is the correct thing.
% Velvet brocaded grenadine with lac
} and plain grenadine is looked upon
/ especially desirable for a gown.
Blown glass beads and pearls are to b
} among the most fashionable Of dre'
trimmings during the fall and winter.
White and pale pink cotton crepe
have been accorded unwonted favol
They are often trimmed very elaborated.
!, Black suede gloves are proper with a
t mourning costumes. The black sill
gloves for summer wear are fashionable
7 Shot silks and shot velvets will
combined in expensive toilets this fal
! and the result will, as srule, be hop
: lessly ugly.
t The latest conceit is a parasol of Il
: same dress goods at the costume, an 7
y novation that the ultra ~fashionables a
, looking upon with unusual favor.
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Farmers and others who have little lels-re
time for the next few months will find 1t tnF :
interest to write B. +. Johnson & Co, Rlc44-
mond, whose advertisement appears IN another
column. They offer great Inducements TO per-
sons to work for them ali or part of their time.
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Are made pallid and unattractive by function
al irregularities which DIR. Pierce's ''Favorite
Prescription' will infallihly cure. Thousands
OF testimonials. By druggists.
The Opelousas courier., 1887-10-15

SYMPTOMS OF CATAR HkE.-Dull,
heavy headache, obstruction of the nasal
into the throat, sometimes profuse, waterys
and acrid, at others, thick, tenacious, mucous,
puruient, bloody and patrid; d the g eyes ytsn are
in the ears. deafness, hacking or coughing to
matter, together with scabs from ulcers; the the
voice is changed and has a nasal twang; tue
paired; there is a sensation of dizziness, with
mental depression, q hacking cough and gen,
eral debility. Only q few OF the aboye-named
symptoms are likely to be present in my one
case. Thousands of cases annually, without
manifesting half of the above symptoms, re-
suit in consumption, and end IN the grave;
dangerous, or less understood by physicians.
BY it's mild, soothing, and healing properties,
DIR. Sage's Catarrh Remedy cures the worst
Ory and Catarrhal Headache.
Sold by druggists everywhere; 30 cents. +
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Birds and the Tender Passion.

Birds and the Tender Passion.
ss0f all the experiences I ever had in
bird business said a New York
iler to a Sun reporter, ''the queerest
! with a swell young lady from Fifth
snue. THAT'S, she was q young lady
The time / tell about. She's had OPP
9tunity to grow quito considerably old
nee. She was in my store on Broad :
way once, looking around at the differSnt
birds, and she saw a pair Of love birds
that | had out In d separate cage. They
are the little green things, you know,
about as big as canaries, with hooked
bills like parrots. She was greatly tax
en- with them, and when 1 told he rabout
how they always go in pairs, and if the,
are separated from one another they die.
nothing would do but she must have
pair, and no pair would do but the yer,
ones she had first seen, which I do 80,
was the most lovingest pair Of low
birds / have evere set my eyes on, ans
have seen q sight Of then
a the last thirty or fort,
years. They used to sit all day snug
gled up close II one another, s@carcel.
moving except TO rub their bills to
gsther once in a while. She paid m
MI. 40 for tho pair, which wasn't high
considering how bad she wanted them
Aid si5 for 4 cage 70 put them II. sh
Hsade the eoachman take them with hin
n tie carriage instead of me sending
slseri, and that was HE last ! saw of he
fos six months. Then she came her
~ Fea stew. Ona If bet birds ha1
died he nieht before. md she Was ate
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Don't hawk, hawk, blow, spit, and disgust
everybody with your offensive breath, but use
DR.. Sage's Catarrh Remedy and end it.
The Opelousas courier., 1887-10-15

The dollar was invented in 1875. Uncle Fam
has kept renewing the patent, so they COME
lust as high as ever
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L. Il NOT Sinculnr

That consumptivcs should be least appresen-
friends are urging and besecching them to be
more careful about exposure and OVERRIDING. 1t
may well be considered one of the most alarm
ing symptoms of the disease, where the patient
is reckless and will not believe that he is in
danger. Reader, if you are in this condition,
do not neglect the only means of recovery.
Avoid exposure and fatigue, be regular in your
habits, and use faithfully of DR.. Pierce'S
Golden Medical Discovery" 1t has saved
thousands who were steadily failing.
The Opelousas courier., 1887-10-15
Lunr Trnuhles and Wasting

There are over 100000 children the United
States between one and twelve years ola
whose lives are insured.
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pnrgh,crs. Wives md Matters.
Send Tor Pamphlet on Female Diseases, Ire9
tccnrely sealed. DIR. J.. b. Marchisi, Utica, n. Y.
The Opelousas courier., 1887-10-15

Closed carriages began to be used by persons
of the highest quality in the fourteenth ahd
fifteen centuries.
The Opelousas courier., 1887-10-15

z months treatment Tor SOC. P.so's Remedy
for Catarrh. Sold py druggists.
The Opelousas courier., 1887-10-15

A French anthropoiogist. enum"rates Il
characteristics forms of the human nose.
The Opelousas courier., 1887-10-15
Beautiful Women

The best lecturing sections are said TO ne n
the West-Ohio, Kansas, Wisconsin ana MICH
ipan-
The Opelousas courier., 1887-10-15

If afiicted with sore eyes use DR. Isaac ThomP-
sons Eye-water. Druggists sell at 25c. per bottle
The Opelousas courier., 1887-10-15

California fruit is very nice, hut S4U anu
$500 a car is charged for freight to the East.
The Opelousas courier., 1887-10-15

GLUE mends everything! BroSen
China, Glass. Wood. Free Walls at Drugs IL Gro
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Women and Electricity.

A writer in the Woman's Argosy says:
aWhy is. motherS hand on the head
Of a sick child SO ~soothing2 Because her
love supplies electricity which is a
curative force and a tonic. Animal
electricity is an agency net SO we'll n
derstood as it should be by women,
though they use it continually. 1t is
enormously COMPOUNDED with the naas-
sage treatment, which is nothing more
or less than merely rubbing the entire
body, Animal electricity is impaired by
careful manipulation Of the muscles,
performed by gently stretching them
with both hands. This produces an
!, elasticity Of action which causes them to
rise, thereby increasing their power to
act. Women, whose fingers are supple
and vet strong, can best impart cleo
richly to their children. The treatment
iould be applied mainly with the fin
srs. When the nerves are Frustrated,
ey can be l~nvigorattd IN the sam
y. They should be gently pressed in
direstion and another, which tends
Increase their vitality. The genera
ulation can be increased by lightly
wing the hands over the surface o
tpod-vessels, not rubbing them briskly
IT using enough force to quicken tn
REGULATION. Woman can become thor
ough animal electricians if they will bu
devote themselves to a careful Study 9
aLdtomy. The world is full of half-in.
valid women, who should b
restored to health by this natura
method. Drugs will not help them, Blu
animal electricity applied under tn
right condition will cure the individual
ism of the SEX
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@Untold Agony from Catarrh.2'

Prof. w. HAUsNER, the famous mesmerist.
of ithaca, N. Y, writes: Some ten years ago
| suffered untold agony from chronic nasal
catarrh. My family physician gave me up as
incurable, and said L must die. My case was
such a bad one, that every day, towards sun,
set, my voice would become SO hoarse l could tic
my Coughing and cleagisg6f my throat would
almost strangle me4Tsy the use OF Dr.. sage,s
Catarrh Remedy, 6jlioW2se months, I was a well
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Sick Headache

Is one of the most distressing affections and people
who are its victims deserve sympathy. But the great
success Hoods SarsapSrilla has had in curing sick
headache makes it seem almost foolish to allow tle
trouble to continue. BY its toning and invigoratlng
effect upon the digestive organs, Hoods Sarsapariila
readily gives relief when b~eaaache arises from indi-
gestion; and in neuralgia Conditions by building up
the debilltatcd system, Hoods Sarsaparilla removes
the cause and hence oyercomes the difficulty.
my wife suffered from sick headache and neue
ralgia. After taking Hoods Sarsaparilla she : u"
much relieved" w. r. BABE, Wilmington. fdlii"
Hoods
Sold by all druggists. 81; six for, 4 hsfepared only
by c. l. HOO & o ARCHAEOLOGICAL, Mass.
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aCor,statit : HaNking and Spitting.''

The y j. RUSHING, Esq, 1909 Pine Street,
81 lhIis. Mo. writes: 81 was a great sufferer
ssthe. catarrh for three years. AT times l could
eddly breathe, and was constantly hawking
Ind splitting, and for the last t., eight adst mGnthT :
could not breathe through the nostr1Is, l
iiy, | was advised to try DR.; Sage's Catarrl
Remedy, and l am now a well man. | believe
it to be the only sure remedy for catarrh now
fair trial to experience astounding results and
a permanent cure"
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Three Bottles Cure CatarrIa. y"

ELI ROBBINS, Runuqn P; O., Columbia Co.,
Pa, says: my daughter had catarrh !, v when Zen
s sage ~ Tat I Se'i Remedy advertised, and pro,
cured a bottle for, her, and soon saw that ~
helped her; o third bottle effected q a d Pefi ma
sound and hearty"
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AAE RRPRG all get Pensions. IL u disa-
&UIUlEkS bbled; v of1Ssfss, t,sye1 pay,
- relieved; q years practice. success or no fee.
Laws sent free. A. We Mccormick q Son. Washington, D, q
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ns~s.9~ HsHl@ Great English Gcut and
0AG Rheumatic Remedy.
Oval Bexs 3As round IA Pills.
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IN u 10 90 a day. Samples worth q 50. FREE.
"a Lines not under the horses feet. Write
CD Brewster Safety Rein Holder Co, Holly, Mich.
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By return mail. Fall Dissertation
n "a MoeAy's New Taller eystena Of Dress
Cattins. MOODY o co. Cincinnati
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ga obtained by =. III. GEL
UA = STON 81 CO., WASH
ingtOn, d.. c.. Send for our book OF Instructions
The Opelousas courier., 1887-10-15

GOLDis worth 800 per pound, Pettit's Eye Salve
NT 81, 600, but is sold at % cents q box by dealers.
The Opelousas courier., 1887-10-15

paws for a Life Scholarship IN the
I'D IA COLEMAN Business L
NEwARK. NEW JERSEY. Positions LOT
IN oradnatss. National patronage. Write
w. For Circulars to H. NJ.
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MRpHuRa Morphine Habit Cured In 10
to 20 days. No pay iii cured.
9Wn& Dr. J. Stephens. Lebanon, Ohio.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1887-11-03
PROGRESSIVE FARMER, NOVEMBER 3 1887.

adjuncts of the U. S: postal service.
l4th. That in view of the fact that
the delegates to this body represent a
majority of the cotton producers of
the cotton belt of America, which belt
produces over two-thirds of the cotton
of the whole world, and in view of
the further. fact that two-thirds of the
cotton in the cotton belt is demanded
and used for export to a foreign
power, which fixes the price on every
pound Of our cotton; and in view. of
the factthat the said power is debar-
red from returning to this country a
single yard of manufactured cotton,
thereby making said power Interested
in ~crowding down to the lowest figure
the price of. cotton; we hereby demand
that the u. S. Government adopt a.
speedy system of reduction of the i'm
port duty on manufactured cottons, in
such a way as to do justice to this,
the greatest of all classes of producers.
14th. We demand such a revision
of the tariff as will lay the heaviest
burdens on the luxuries and the light
est OF the necessaries of life and as
will reduce the incomes from imports
to a strictly revenue basis.
18th. That as a. remedy against the
unjust accumulation and encroach-
ment of capital, we demand a gradu-
ated income tax.
10th. That as upon the intelligence
Of the people depend the stability and
perpetuity of u W free govern
ment, we demand for the masses a
we'll regulated system of industrial
and agricultural education. %.
18th. That we oppose the continued
influx of pauper labor from the mon
arches of Europe, whose anarchic
views and communistic doctrines are
breeding discomfort, and disloyaltyto
law, order, peace and good govern
ment; and by an overplus of worth
less labor, reducing our own laboring
classes to. starvation, we therefore de-
mand more stringent laws to prevent
this country being further used as an
asylum for: the communists and pau
pers of other countries. 49,
18th. We demand that the consti-
t%utions, both State aud National, be SO
amended as to provide for the election
of y. S. Senators by direct vote of
the people.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1887-11-03
TO COUNTY AND SUBORDINATE
ALLIANCES IN N. c.
CIRCULAR NO. ~
OFFICE SEC'Y OF F. S. A. OF n. c.,
NJ ~ 81 1907

hdlClSL, IN. ". Wv. Z, 1901.
1. The officers of all County and subor-
dihate Alliances now organized, or which
may be hereafter organized in the State
of North Carolina, will henceforth make
all reports and applications for blanks and
forms, and remit all fees and dues to tire
Secretary of the State Alliance at this
office.
2. The secretaries of the various County
Alliances will report at once the name
and number of each subordinate Alliances
in their respective counties, together with
the number of members in each-the
number of male members over 81 years of
age-the number Of male members under
| FL years of age and the number of female
members in each.
3. All commissioned organizers will re-
port promptly the Alliances organized
within their respective jurisdictions, which
have not been reported to the National
Alliance and which have not received
their dispensation or charter, and will re-
| NIT the fees due to this Office. All organ
izers will report to this Office on the 10Th
day of this month all work done by them
up to that date which has not been re-
ported to the National Alliance, and will
remit all monies due this Office Gf any
up to that date.
The secretary will provide as soon as
possible a supply of all necessary blanks
and forms, constitutions and rituals, for
the use of the order in this State.
In the incipiency of our organization he
cannot too strongly urge upon all the Off
GERS the vital Importance of making prompt
and correct returns and reports as required
by our Constitution. L. l.. Polk,
Sec'y Farmers State Alliance of N. G.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1887-11-03

Wheel at it's last annual meeting de,
cided to join hands with the National
Farmers Alliance and Cooperative
Union. We can but feel that this &C.
ton was sensible, broad-minded and
public-spirited. 1t is the beginning of
a closer and more compact union of
the. farmers of the country than has
previously existed.-Home and Farm.
AT the recent meeting of the Ma
tionalAlliance, the Wheel of Kentucky
and Tennessee and Missouri all affiliated
with our order.-ED. PROGRESSIVE
FARMER.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1887-11-03
TO SECRETARIES OF COUNTY
" ALLIANCES.
go. CIRCULAR NO. p 81
OFfICE FARMERS STATE ALLIANCE,

-: Raleigh, N. G.
1t is important that a complete record
of all the Alliances now organized in our
State should be furnished this Office at the
earliest practicable time. 1t is impossible
for me to act ~intelligently until this is
done. | therefore suggest to the Score
taries of the County Alliances that they
call a meeting at once of the Secretaries
of their respective counties and make out
a report and send to this Office, embracing
the following items:
Name and number of each Alliance;
date of organization; number of male
members over 81 years of age; number of
male members under FL years; number OF
female members, and state whether the
Alliance has received its charter or dis
pensation; the name and p~ostofice adj
dress of the Secretary of each. Give the
date of organization of the County ALI
ance. with the name and postofice adj
dress of the Secretary.
L. L. Polk,
Sec'Y Farmers State Alliance
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1887-11-03

The Agricultural Wheel is another
organization that is growing rapidly
in the West and South. It admits
other classes than farmers. This is
its principal difference from the ALI
n There is a cordial feeling be-
tween the Wheel and Alliance in
some States, and the Arkansas State
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-02-03

The mortar boat got its name from the gun
it carried. First a heavy wooden float was
built. Upon it were erected very thick
wooden walls. These sloped inward and were
about eight feet high. They were plated with
heavy iron. Inside was single heavy NOR
tar, with ammunition below the water line.
There was also tent for the gunners within
the walls.
These mortar boats were considered for
midable twenty-five years ago. But such Is
the improvement made since then in destIuc-
tive warfare that one shot from even a mod
crate sized gun Of the kind now made would
knock an old fashioned mortar boat into
flinders.
One youthful Confederate gunner dis
tinguished himself CALAMITY at the lower
water battery at Fort Donelson. While
Foote'S gunboats were peppering the batter
les to the right and left this youth, John G
Frequa, stood perfectly straight at his gun,
taking aim and firing as coolly as il he had
been squirrel hunting.
Snow, boys" said he, 'see me take chin
ney."
He aimed at the smokestack of an advabc
ing gunboat 1t fell, carrying with it the
flag. Frequa threw. his cap in the air. yelling
defiantly.
Again the nervy boy took aim. clear and
straight Shortly he sent ball directly
through a portfolio, and then the gunboat fell
back disabled. The portfolios of the boat8
were quite large
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-02-03
PERSONAL.
J. NJ. Swartz of Americas made this
Office pleasant call Wednesday.

j. N. Swartz of Americas made this
Office a pleasant call Wednesday.
Hon. w. H. Anderson of Americas,
was in town Wednesday buying real
estate.
Mrs. Belle Lantry of Strong City, is
visiting with her friend, Mrs. jean
nette Burton, for few days.
Mrs. j. B. Higley of Sterling, Kan
sas, is visiting with her son, Mr.. s. w.
Higley, of this city. She viii remain
here several days.
Misses Katie Cook and D. De Ne.f t
Howard, came up Saturday to do a
little shopping with our merchants.
They returned the same day.
DIR. Burck and his newly-made bride
returned to the city Saturday from
their wedding trip, and Will reside for
short time at the Hotel Coolidge.
John Bond of Americas is in town
Tuesday looking up business. He adj
mits that Emporia is a little bigger
than Americas, and possibly trife
livelier.
Miss Eta Slocum, who has been en-
ployed for over six years in the store
of j. W. latham, leaves next week for
Arkansas City, where she will take a
position in the>store of Mr.. Newman.
Miss Slocum has host of friends in
this city who sincerely regret her de-
parture. May good luck follow her.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-02-03
rHE cARoNpFLEr.

The CarondeIet IS good Illustration OF the
old-fashioned gunboat. It was the fist to
arrive on the morning Of Thursday, Feb. Is.
1t opened fire. 1t may be mentioned that the
old Carondelet, with the same commander,
Capt Walke was also the first to afterward
pass down the river under the batteries at
Viclsburg.
The rest of Foote'S feet with the trans
ports, containing six regiments OF soldiers,
arrived Thursday evening. Friday morning
the Presbyterian flag officer opened fire from
his feet OF six gunboats, four ironclads and
two wooden ones. There was q severe fight
of an hour and a half, which did not result in
q brilliant success for the fleet. The boats
engaged were the ironclads st. Louis, Caron-
delet, Louisville and Pittsburg, and the
wooden boats Tyler and Conestoga Four of
the boats were disabled. The first fire from
the Carondelet had disabled one of the
32-pounders in the water batteries. The
same shot instantly killed Lieut. Joseph
Dixon, a brave Confederate officer and the
accomplished local engineer who had assisted
in preparing the defenses of Donelson. That
was about the only damage apparently done
by the fleet Then Commander Foote drew
off the remains of it and dropped down out
Of range.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-02-03

vention, both in the day and at night,
were crowded, Notwithstanding that
an admission fee was charged.
There is some talk of the democrats
of the District holding a rousing
public meeting to jubilate over the
triumph of home rule principles in IN ?
rejection by the senate of the colored
man Matthews for the Office of recorder
of deeds for this place. 1t is believed
that the president will now appoint a
local man to the position, although he
win probably be colored man.
War, and rumors of war, are thick
about the capitol and the hotel lob
bies Just now, but there are no active
preparations about the navy yards.
Even the ordnance yard, which was es-
tablished here by act of last congress,
has not been put into running order
yet, nor has the superintendent been
selected. This little furry, however,
may have the effect of getting larger
appropriations from congress for coast
defences and new gun boats, and of so
increasing the expenses of the govern
ment that reduction of the tariff viii
not be practicable: 1t may also lead
to an earlier solution of the fisheries
question. But outside of the above
| effects, the talk in the Hobbies indicates
that there will be no lighting. II.